There have been a couple of these stories now known, about
teenagers whom doing a science project or such things have found a better or faster way to detect certain cancers and they are not the well funded research types or have access to big money. This one sounds pretty interesting, hope they will promote others to use their gifts and think on their own. This one is about
pancreatic cancer:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/22/jack-andraka-15-wins-inte_n_1535741.html
Yeap, he is 15 yrs. old too and has trumped the current medical thinking, it appears.